Numerical homogenization and simulation of a lamination stack

Author(s):  
Maximilian Volkan Baloglu ◽  
Kai Willner
Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 3786
Author(s):  
Tomasz Garbowski ◽  
Anna Knitter-Piątkowska ◽  
Damian Mrówczyński

The corrugated board packaging industry is increasingly using advanced numerical tools to design and estimate the load capacity of its products. This is why numerical analyses are becoming a common standard in this branch of manufacturing. Such trends cause either the use of advanced computational models that take into account the full 3D geometry of the flat and wavy layers of corrugated board, or the use of homogenization techniques to simplify the numerical model. The article presents theoretical considerations that extend the numerical homogenization technique already presented in our previous work. The proposed here homogenization procedure also takes into account the creasing and/or perforation of corrugated board (i.e., processes that undoubtedly weaken the stiffness and strength of the corrugated board locally). However, it is not always easy to estimate how exactly these processes affect the bending or torsional stiffness. What is known for sure is that the degradation of stiffness depends, among other things, on the type of cut, its shape, the depth of creasing as well as their position or direction in relation to the corrugation direction. The method proposed here can be successfully applied to model smeared degradation in a finite element or to define degraded interface stiffnesses on a crease line or a perforation line.


2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Trung Kien ◽  
Nguyen Van Luat ◽  
Pham Duc Chinh

Three-point correlation bounds are constructed on effective conductivity of unidirectional composites, which are isotropic in the transverse plane. The bounds contain, in addition to the properties and volume proportions of the component materials, three-point correlation parameters describing the micro-geometry of a composite, and are tighter those obtained in [1]. The bounds, applied to some disordered and periodic composites, keep inside the numerical homogenization results obtained by Fast Fourier method.


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